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In seventeenth-century Venice, the invention of the opera house as a public institution altered the relationship of the audience to the operatic performance on the stage and to each other. The stage performance was now separated from the audience both by the proscenium arch, which framed the action, and by the orchestra. The occupants of the boxes faced one another across the auditorium as well as the stage. Seeing and being seen was as much a function of the opera house as seeing and hearing what took place on the stage. American visitors to ltaly were routinely shocked at the casual ways of the boxholders and at the little attention they seemed to pay to the opera. There was incessant talk in the boxes, banging of doors, a restless to-and-fro.
Public display was only half the story. The public nature of Venice' s social life was balanced by a passion for disguise. Much of its political activity was conducted in secrecy. Masks were usually worn during carnival, attracting the crowned heads of Europe, who could play there incognito. The Venetian opera box was the equivalent of the mask. With its door shut, with shutters pulled across the front, the box became a place of privacy, an association that still exists in our time.
Public display was only half the story. The public nature of Venice' s social life was balanced by a passion for disguise. Much of its political activity was conducted in secrecy. Masks were usually worn during carnival, attracting the crowned heads of Europe, who could play there incognito. The Venetian opera box was the equivalent of the mask. With its door shut, with shutters pulled across the front, the box became a place of privacy, an association that still exists in our time.
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